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Kenya’s Killer Roads: Dodgy riding licences and perilous cars in Kenya

Kenya’s Killer Roads: Dodgy riding licences and perilous cars in Kenya
Kenya’s Killer Roads: Dodgy riding licences and perilous cars in Kenya


Have the community of roads which criss-cross Kenya turn out to be loss of life traps?

Between 2020 and 2021 Kenyan highway deaths rose greater than 20%. Closing 12 months, greater than 4500 had been killed and in far more than 16,000 other folks had been injured.

The Kenyan Govt says inebriated riding, overloading, and dashing are some of the best reasons of the carnage. However is corruption additionally an element?

Journalist Richard Chacha, himself paralysed in a highway coincidence ten years in the past, joins Africa Eye to reveal rogue riding college workers who, for a rate, repair it for rookie drivers to get in the back of the wheel with out ever having to take a riding take a look at.

Africa Eye additionally unearths how agents take money to overcome the car protection trying out gadget, enabling taxis are compatible for the scrap heap to be pushed on Kenya’s roads… and lift passengers.

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